Gibson worked his way through seven pitches. And on the eighth, he somehow smoked a ball over the right-center field fence. Dodgers 5, A’s 4. On the radio Jack Buck said: “I don’t believe ...

The Kirk Gibson home run off Dennis Eckersley (A's) - and the accompanying calls by both Vin Scully and Jack Buck - is one of the biggest moments in baseball history, so for Carpenter to ...

He went even further by comparing the moment to Kirk Gibson's homer in the 1988 World Series, in which the All-Star slugger pinch-hit in Game 1 despite injuries to both legs and walked it off ...